Charles Oudin 18k Gold, Diamond and Guilloche Enamel Pocket Watch on Fancy Gold Chain Necklace, ca. 1862
Fashioned as a necklace, 18k yellow gold pocket watch, by Charles Oudin, white porcelain dial with black enamel Roman numerals and blued steel Breguet type minute/hour hands, bezel is chased with scroll and foliate design, exquisite emerald guilloche enamel and adorned with rose cut diamonds, total estimated diamond weight 0.75 ct, fully marked on inside of the dust cover with a French hallmark and signed on the outside of the same: "Ch's Oudin, H-er de la Marine, No.19415, Palais Royal 52, Paris, Medailles de 1806 a 1862"; offered on integral 14k yellow gold fancy pocket watch chain; overall weight 34.4 gm. Gold gilt bar type movement with cylinder escapement. Key wind and key set. Both very small in width and not included.
Charles Oudin is one of the oldest French horology firms. It was founded in Paris at the end of the 18th century by Jean-Charles (known as Charles) Oudin, who came from a family of clockmakers in Northwest France. There were four generations of Oudins who were clockmakers, as of the mid 18th century, first in the Meuse region and later, in Paris. Several members of the Oudin family worked for the master watch and clockmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet.
Charles Oudin, the best known member of this horological dynasty, established his business toward the end of the 18th century, devoting himself to luxury and precision clocks and watches. The first watches signed "Charles Oudin, éléve de Breguet" (Charles Oudin, student of Breguet) date from 1797. In 1801 Charles Oudin opened a workshop in the Palais-Royal, one of Paris's most fashionable areas at the time. In 1805 he made a repeating à tact watch for Empress Josephine, wife of Emperor Napoleon I.
Condition: Overall very good as antique jewellery, chain gold purity acid tested. Watch running at inspection but not tested for accuracy. Function tested in multiple positions. Hairlines in porcelain dial.
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Fashioned as a necklace, 18k yellow gold pocket watch, by Charles Oudin, white porcelain dial with black enamel Roman numerals and blued steel Breguet type minute/hour hands, bezel is chased with scroll and foliate design, exquisite emerald guilloche enamel and adorned with rose cut diamonds, total estimated diamond weight 0.75 ct, fully marked on inside of the dust cover with a French hallmark and signed on the outside of the same: "Ch's Oudin, H-er de la Marine, No.19415, Palais Royal 52, Paris, Medailles de 1806 a 1862"; offered on integral 14k yellow gold fancy pocket watch chain; overall weight 34.4 gm. Gold gilt bar type movement with cylinder escapement. Key wind and key set. Both very small in width and not included.
Charles Oudin is one of the oldest French horology firms. It was founded in Paris at the end of the 18th century by Jean-Charles (known as Charles) Oudin, who came from a family of clockmakers in Northwest France. There were four generations of Oudins who were clockmakers, as of the mid 18th century, first in the Meuse region and later, in Paris. Several members of the Oudin family worked for the master watch and clockmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet.
Charles Oudin, the best known member of this horological dynasty, established his business toward the end of the 18th century, devoting himself to luxury and precision clocks and watches. The first watches signed "Charles Oudin, éléve de Breguet" (Charles Oudin, student of Breguet) date from 1797. In 1801 Charles Oudin opened a workshop in the Palais-Royal, one of Paris's most fashionable areas at the time. In 1805 he made a repeating à tact watch for Empress Josephine, wife of Emperor Napoleon I.
Condition: Overall very good as antique jewellery, chain gold purity acid tested. Watch running at inspection but not tested for accuracy. Function tested in multiple positions. Hairlines in porcelain dial.
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